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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). anticipates a coming shortage of workers in engineering and tech – there are projected to be 10.9 are immense.

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Deborah W. Martinez

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Martinez has extensive experience as a senior association executive, including the development and management of continuing education and professional development programs, as well as regional, national and international conferences and meetings. Title: Executive Director International Ultraviolet Association Deborah W.

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These 10 schools found their footing creating quality alternative credentials

University Business

“[T]hose institutions thriving within the changing landscape of higher education continue to make it easy for people to unbundle and rebundle their education and training, allowing them to personalize and best meet their career and personal goals,” read the report.

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A New Model for Lifelong Learning

University Business

Education for a Lifetime How one university turned a struggling enterprise into a $6 million lifelong learning powerhouse A decade ago, the University of South Florida’s Continuing Education program was by all accounts a financial burden. Then part of USF’s Innovative Education division, the unit was losing $60,000 a year.

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Microcredentials confuse employers, colleges and learners

Inside Higher Ed

By one count, the United States is home to more than one million unique educational credentials, which represents a more than threefold increase since 2018. “We could reverse [that trend] by giving them educational products that will get them reconnected, that will value their prior learning, that will get them to that degree.”

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Learning by Working Together: Developing and Checking for Group Integration Across Diverse Disciplinary Cohorts

Faculty Focus

Often, at the higher education level, instruction is provided to classes that consist of diverse groups of students from various course cohorts or disciplines. This is necessary to harness inputs and contributions from various stakeholders or agencies, all working towards shared objectives or, at the very least, addressing common challenges.

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Costs and Benefits of Adding 30-units to Accounting Students' Requirements for Licensure as a CPA

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

Recent changes in the laws in many states have moved to a bifurcated system in which students must have 120 credit hours of college education to sit for the CPA exam and 150 credit hours (225 for quarter schools) to be licensed as a CPA. Expanding the Knowledge Base for CPAs. The AICPA was an early supporter of the 150-hour requirement.

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